Crossword clues for dispatcher
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dispatcher \Dis*patch"er\, n. One who dispatches.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-16c., agent noun from dispatch (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (agent noun of dispatch English); one who dispatches 2 In a transportation organization, a person who controls the movements of vehicles 3 (context computing English) A piece of software responsible for assigning priorities and resources to tasks waiting to be scheduled
WordNet
n. the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition [syn: starter]
employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service
Wikipedia
Dispatchers are communications personnel responsible for receiving and transmitting pure and reliable messages, tracking vehicles and equipment, and recording other important information. A number of organizations, including police and fire departments, emergency medical services, motorcycle couriers, taxicab providers, trucking companies, railroads, and public utility companies, use dispatchers to relay information and coordinate their operations. Essentially, the dispatcher is the " conductor" of the force, and is responsible for the direction of all units within it.
Usage examples of "dispatcher".
Then I dialed 911 and chewed the inside of my cheek while I waited for the dispatcher.
They spoke of an interregional soccer match, and of the possibility of work stoppage by the truck dispatchers.
Congress was not limited to the enactment of laws relating to mechanical appliances, but it was also competent to consider, and to endeavor to reduce, the dangers incident to the strain of excessive hours of duty on the part of engineers, conductors, train dispatchers, telegraphers, and other persons embraced within the class defined by the act.
Tbe atmosphere was busy as a halfdozen assistant dispatchers monitored a constantly changing mass of information, though the sound level remained low, the result of engineered acoustics.
The dispatcher in Albany had caught the tip barely two hours ago, then forwarded it to Reeves at home.
The dispatchers were like that, particularly with the indentured truckers, like him.
Two men occupied the tiny cinderblock state police headquarters at Dona Luz: a crew-cut good of' boy state cop, Bill Koontz, and a young good-looking radio dispatcher, Emilio Cisneros.
The dispatcher must have been impressed because he told her a patrol car would be sent out immediately to do basically what Colleen had done.
Two uniformed officers stood together talking while the police dispatcher, like a barker, issued a monotonous, nonstop account of crimes and misdemeanors in progress: complaints about noise, a call reporting a domestic disturbance in another part of town, a prowler, a drunk urinating on a public street.
The owner of City Cab had looked and found nothing and Ron Coachella at Tip Top wasn't in yet, but the dispatcher on duty said he'd be in shortly.
Ron Coachella, the dispatcher for Tip Top, was the only cheerful soul in the lot, primarily because he'd done a records search for me once before with good results.
Unable to regain hydraulics, Captain Delbaugh requested and received permission from United's dispatcher and from Chicago to divert from O'Hare to the nearest major airport, which was Dubuque, Iowa.
Two hours later, a police dispatcher phoned Augustine's house with a message: His dead uncle's missing Cape buffalo, identified by an ear tag, had turned up in the produce aisle of a storm-gutted supermarket.
The dispatcher told her to wait, of course, but even as she heard that rational, sensible counsel, Jemima Youngblood knew she couldn't wait.
The dispatcher told her to wait, of course, but even as she heard that rational, sensible counsel, Jemima Youngblood knew she couldn’.